If all goes to plan, from April 2018 anyone in the UK visiting a website deemed pornographic will be asked to verify that they are aged 18 or over before they can proceed. The plan, proposed as part of the Digital Economy Act in 2016, was formally “commenced” this week by the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Matt Hancock, who offered surprisingly scant detail on its implementation in comments made to a newspaper website.

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